Jacky Bowring is Professor of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University, New Zealand. She is the author of A Field Guide to Melancholy (2008), Melancholy and the Landscape: Locating Sadness, Memory and Reflection in the Landscape (2016), and editor of Landscape Review, and explores ideas about landscape architecture through research, critique, and design, including a winning design in journal LA+’s international competition to design an island.

"Landscape Architecture Criticism brings the long-overdue consideration of landscape criticism to the fore. Bowring sees and advocates for the widest possible application of criticism. The book is highly helpful for academics and students of landscape architecture. The book should be of interest to practitioners and designers hoping to enhance the way they look at their work and the work of others." —Landscape Australia

• 1 Introduction2 History of landscape architectural criticism3 Motives and methods for critique4 Theoretical overview5 Theoretical positions: Art and Aesthetics6 Theoretical positions: Meaning and politics7 Theoretical positions: Experience and emotion8 Theoretical positions: Context9 Theoretical positions: Function and performance10 Critique of the unbuilt11 Combining and contrasting critiques12 Communicating criticism13 Conclusion

Jacky Bowring is Professor of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University, New Zealand. She is the author of A Field Guide to Melancholy (2008), Melancholy and the Landscape: Locating Sadness, Memory and Reflection in the Landscape (2016), and editor of Landscape Review, and explores ideas about landscape architecture through research, critique, and design, including a winning design in journal LA+’s international competition to design an island.

"Landscape Architecture Criticism brings the long-overdue consideration of landscape criticism to the fore. Bowring sees and advocates for the widest possible application of criticism. The book is highly helpful for academics and students of landscape architecture. The book should be of interest to practitioners and designers hoping to enhance the way they look at their work and the work of others." —Landscape Australia

• 1 Introduction2 History of landscape architectural criticism3 Motives and methods for critique4 Theoretical overview5 Theoretical positions: Art and Aesthetics6 Theoretical positions: Meaning and politics7 Theoretical positions: Experience and emotion8 Theoretical positions: Context9 Theoretical positions: Function and performance10 Critique of the unbuilt11 Combining and contrasting critiques12 Communicating criticism13 Conclusion

Jacky Bowring is Professor of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University, New Zealand. She is the author of A Field Guide to Melancholy (2008), Melancholy and the Landscape: Locating Sadness, Memory and Reflection in the Landscape (2016), and editor of Landscape Review, and explores ideas about landscape architecture through research, critique, and design, including a winning design in journal LA+’s international competition to design an island.

"Landscape Architecture Criticism brings the long-overdue consideration of landscape criticism to the fore. Bowring sees and advocates for the widest possible application of criticism. The book is highly helpful for academics and students of landscape architecture. The book should be of interest to practitioners and designers hoping to enhance the way they look at their work and the work of others." —Landscape Australia

• 1 Introduction2 History of landscape architectural criticism3 Motives and methods for critique4 Theoretical overview5 Theoretical positions: Art and Aesthetics6 Theoretical positions: Meaning and politics7 Theoretical positions: Experience and emotion8 Theoretical positions: Context9 Theoretical positions: Function and performance10 Critique of the unbuilt11 Combining and contrasting critiques12 Communicating criticism13 Conclusion